A Lawyer Writes

A Lawyer Writes

Sentencing a killer

Defendant hears he will spend at least 49 years in prison

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Joshua Rozenberg
Mar 20, 2025
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Nicholas Prosper planned a school shooting on a scale that he hoped would make him globally notorious. When that plan was thwarted, he didn’t even want anybody to watch him when he was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his mother, brother and sister.

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb at Luton Crown Court yesterday

But Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb called his…

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